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VERBOSITY

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VERBOSITY (noun)
  The noun VERBOSITY has 1 sense:

1. an expressive style that uses excessive or empty wordsplay

  Familiarity information: VERBOSITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VERBOSITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

verboseness; verbosity

Hypernyms ("verbosity" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verbosity"):

verbalism; verbiage (overabundance of words)

long-windedness; prolixity; prolixness; windiness; wordiness (boring verbosity)

ambage; circumlocution; periphrasis (a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things)

repetitiousness; repetitiveness (verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions)

pleonasm (using more words than necessary)

Derivation:

verbose (using or containing too many words)


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